I am technically "boss" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone.

There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label.

The secret of getting ahead is getting started

You need not expect to get your book right the first time.

A mine is a hole in the ground with a liar on top.